"To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes."
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"The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames."
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"What a comfort is friendship in this world."
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"Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough."
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"There was no treachery too base for the world to commit."
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"WHAT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED IF YOU HADN'T SAVED HIM? "Yes! The sun would have risen just the same, yes?" NO "Oh, come on. You can't expect me to believe that. It's an astronomical fact." THE SUN WOULD NOT HAVE RISEN. ... "Really? Then what would have happened, pray?" A MERE BALL OF FLAMING GAS WOULD HAVE ILLUMINATED THE WORLD."
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"...no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away... The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."
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"They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt."
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"The more you think about it, the more amazing the everyday world of human beings becomes: most of it doesn't actually exist at all."
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"The real world was far too real to leave neat little hints. It was full of too many things. It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got to the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of eliminating the possibilities."
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"THAT’S MORTALS FOR YOU, Death continued. THEY’VE ONLY GOT A FEW YEARS IN THIS WORLD AND THEY SPEND THEM ALL IN MAKING THINGS COMPLICATED FOR THEMSELVES. FASCINATING."
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"Don't you *ever* let go?" "I haven't yet." "Why?" "I suppose... because in this world, after everyone panics, there's always got to be someone to tip the wee out of the shoe."
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"Find the story, Granny Weatherwax always said. She believed that the world was full of story shapes. If you let them, they controlled you. But if you studied them, if you found out about them... you could use them, you could change them."
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"All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone."
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"If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty."
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"There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving."
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"The man gave a shrug which indicated that, although the world did indeed have many problems, this was one of them that was not his."
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"A world like that, which exists only because the gods enjoy a joke, must be a place where magic can survive. And sex too, of course."
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"It's beautiful," said Mort softly. "What is it?" THE SUN IS UNDER THE DISC, said Death. "Is it like this every night?" EVERY NIGHT, said Death. NATURE'S LIKE THAT. "Doesn't anyone know?" ME. YOU. THE GODS. GOOD, ISN'T IT? "Gosh!" Death leaned over the saddle and looked down at the kingdoms of the world. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, he said, BUT I COULD MURDER A CURRY."
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"It's a god-eat-god world."
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